The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-04-14
pOWDERLY REJOICES
Because the Anarchist Candidates for Chicago
City Ofices We're Laid Out Cold.

At Il meeting OF Knights OF Labor repre-
senting every district in Pennsylvania, held
at Harrisburg to consider the bills per-
tanning to labor now pending In the legisla-
ture, the general master workman express
ed himself we'll pleased with the result
of the Chicago election. A public meeting
was held In the house OF representatives.
Mr.. Powderly presided and made speech,
in which he asserted:
Labor had right to be represented here
by men to look afterits interests in the leg
islature He referred to the monopolistic
corporations being represented in legisla-
tive halls, and said it was time the
labor men OF Pennsylvania emu
lated the example OF their brethren in New
Jersey and insist upon the examination OF
all labor bills before they were passed.
I'VE are charged with being anarchists and
favoring measures that tend to anarchy.
AS chief OF our organization / can say that
anarchy finds no abiding place in our
midst; but monopolists want to make
people believe the contrary. No matter
what errors we have committed in the past
we have always aimed at doing right. We
have pursued line OF policy and found out
things that are right and wrong, but we have
always kept clear OF the one thing that brings
odium on our country-anarchy." He re-
ioiced, therefore, Is the defeat OF the anar-
chist candidates in Chicago. was glad to
see that the workingmen OF that city were
good enough to throw the lie back into the
faces to those who posed as their friends
and representatives. No sooner did the
anarchist ticket go before the people than
its supporters said, We will carry the ticket
under the flag on whose face not one star
glistens, not one stripe is to be found, and
the teaching OF such men as Powderly and
Griffiths will have no weight with u.s. But
they found election day that anarchy was
showed under as it was never showed un-
der before, and l say amen to that every
time.
BURST OF PATRIOTISM.
did not know but what in the decora-
ton OF this hall you might forget to
place the American flag on the walls
Thursday, that it might be for
gotten. brought this with me this morn
ing, there Mr.. Powderly exhibited Il flag
amid tremendous applause], and |
brought it here so that if it were charged
that we were not Americans we could show
born; don't care where the rest OF you
were born; but We swear by that flag and
no other. Let them Tomorrow morn
ing after these out-bursts OF ap.
plause charge us with being any
thing but freeborn American citizens, and
these manifestations which you have given
expression to will be the refutation OF that
lie which will ring down the century in
condemnation of the red flag. Now broth.
ers, we are here and we will stand or fall
by the sentiments Ihave given utterance to.
We are here as Americans to watch
American legislation in the interests OF
the American people and in our Amer
lean way, and also to say that these
men who assembled a hundred years
ago inPhiladelphia and gave out the Dec
laration OF Independence to the world were
Ia, xl1.x IL
created free and equal and endowed with
certain inalienable rights, and that we
believe they told the truth and that it
still continues to be the truth instead OF ~
living lie, as some Of these men would
have people believe. We can do this with
out being anarchists, without being
partisans and without being tied to
the charcoal wheels OF either the old demo-
cratic or republican party. 1t was now an
impossibility for mechanic to earn enough
by his own labor to support his family. He
had to call in the help OF his wife and chill
dren. He wanted the barriers between
life OF shame and a life Of virtuous industry
greater than fifty cents day. The chill
dren should be taken off the coal breaker
and kept at school. The public could not
exist on q red flag foundation ofignorance,
vice and crime.
Industrial schools should be blished
and hands and brains educated at the
same time The legislature a few years
ago would not have paid the slightest at
tenuion to a labor organization, but now
the Knights of labor could defeat any can
didate, and SO a word to the wise In this legis-
lation would be sufficient. The boycott was
wrong for the man that was boycotted,
and so was the blacklisting wrong for the
man that made the blacklist. He did not
believe in either system. He believed in
arbitration, and he would make arbitra-
ion compulsory.